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    The Power of Dialogue Between Israelis and Palestinians
    Stories of Change from the School for Peace

    Nava Sonnenschein (Author), Tamar Saguy (Introduction by), Deb Reich (Translated by), Deb Reich (Edited by)

    9780813599212

    Paperback / softback, published 8 January 2019

    388 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.463 kg

    "This anthology of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian narratives expressed through in-depth interviews reveal the meaningful process of dialogue that changed participants’ life-experiences, perspectives and even aspects of identity, and demonstrates how seeds of change begin in questioning long-lasting social convictions."
    - Yona Teichman (Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel)

    In The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, scholar and activist Nava Sonnenschein shares a collection of twenty-five powerful interviews she conducted with Palestinian and Jewish Israeli alumni of peacebuilding courses, a decade after their graduation. Participants with diverse personal and professional backgrounds completed a series of conflict transformation workshops using the model developed by the School for Peace at the world’s only intentional Jewish-Palestinian community, Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam (“Oasis of Peace” in Hebrew and Arabic). Critically, the interviews vividly demonstrate that peacebuilding does not end with the courses. Most of the graduates choose to work professionally in roles that contribute to peace-building. Sonnenschein shows the transformational potential of encounter between members of groups in conflict, sharing how ordinary Israelis and Palestinians coming together in an open and honest environment undergo life-changing experiences that provide concrete hope for a sustainable path to a peaceful shared existence as equals in Israel and Palestine. 

     

    Foreword
    Chapter 1: When Groups Meet:  Understanding How Power Dynamics Shape Intergroup Encounters
    PART ONE: HUMAN RIGHTS &
    POLITICAL ACTIVISM
    Chapter 2: Michael Sfard - Lawyer and human rights activist specializing in human rights law and the laws of war
    Chapter 3: Suhad Hammoud Dahleh - Lawyer focusing on the human rights of East Jerusalem’
    s 260,000 Palestinians
    co-founder of the law firm Dahleh, Hammound and Associates
    Chapter 4: Mohammad Abu Snineh - Lawyer with the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center
    Chapter 5: Yonatan Shapira - Activist and musician with music available on Spotify and iHeartRadio
    member of Boycott from Within
    PART TWO: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, EDUCATION &
    PLANNING
    Chapter 6: Ayelet Roth - School Network Director of Hand in Hand bilingual school
    Chapter 7: Harb Amara - Program Director for the School for Peace
    Chapter 8: Youval Tamari
    Chapter 9: Rachela Yanay
    Chapter 10: Nazih Ansaari
    Chapter 11: Sebastian Wallerstein - Executive Director of the Affordable Housing Center at Tel Aviv University
    PART THREE: FAMILY &
    COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
    Chapter 12: Wassim Biroumi - Program Coordinator of ICCI and coordinates a program called “
    From Memory to Reconciliation”
    for Youth and Young Adults with the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel
    Chapter 13: Yoav Lurie - Psychotherapist with both individuals and groups
    Occupational Therapist
    Works in private practice and the Center for the Victims of Sexual Assaults in Tel Aviv
    Teaches in Occupational Therapy Department in Tel-Aviv University
    Board member of the Israeli Association of Group Therapy
    Chapter 14: Dina Zarega - Clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Jerusalem
    Chapter 15: Slieman Halabi - Coordinator of Internal Events at the Salaam-Shalom Initiative
    Research Associate at Jacobs University in Bremen
    Current Ph.D. candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena at the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World
    PART FOUR: UNIVERSITY TEACHING &
    RESEARCH
    Chapter 16: Norma Musih - Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Belgrade Singidunum University
    Ph.D. candidate the Indiana University
    Chapter 17: Roi Silberberg - Program Director of the School for Peace
    Chapter 18: Nada Matta - Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at New York University
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages and the Department of Sociology at Drexel University
    Chapter 19: Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder - Senior Lecturer on the sociology of gender and education at Ben-Gurion University
    Chapter 20: Maram Masarwi - Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Belgrade Singidunum University
    Head of the early childhood education department at Al-Qasemi College of Education
    Lecturer in the faculty of Education at the David Yallin College in Israel
    PART FIVE: PIONEERING NEW ORGANIZATIONS
    Chapter 21: Eitan Bronstein - Co-Director, Video Director, and Editor of De-Colonizer, a research and art laboratory
    Chapter 22: Amin Khalaf - Leader of the East &
    West Center for language study in Jerusalem
    Chapter 23: Maya Mukamel
    Chapter 24: Badria Biromi
    Chapter 25: Avi Levi
    Chapter 26: Amal Elsana Alh’
    jooj
    Afterword: A Critical Analysis of the Interviews
    References
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